It's difficult enough to keep up with a Luka Doncic-powered offense, especially when the Los Angeles Lakers have built a roster tailor-made to maximize their main man's strengths. But for the Atlanta Hawks, they have nobody but themselves to blame as they ran out of steam in their 124-114 loss to the Lakers on Monday at home.

It all boiled down to execution during crunch time. The Hawks came back from a double-digit deficit at halftime and kept it close until the final minutes of the game, but their carelessness with the ball ended up biting them on the backside. They turned the ball over 19 times on the night, which the Lakers converted for 29 points.

For head coach Quin Snyder, this proved to be the biggest backbreaker as the Hawks fell to 7-5 on the new campaign, with this defeat snapping a four-game winning streak.

“We just didn't execute. It's tough to defend against live-ball turnovers,” Snyder said, per Mikey Kobrinsky of Hawks Fan TV.

The Lakers have athletes who can run up and down the roster, and their offense in the halfcourt is difficult to contain as it is. Losing the transition battle just made it impossible for the Hawks to keep in step with their opponent's high-octane offense.

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Come the end of the game, Doncic showed why he's on track to win his first MVP award. The Hawks were sending multiple bodies to try and speed up the game and get the ball out of his hands, but he made the right pass every time, and the Lakers got into a scoring spree that the Hawks could not recover from.

At the very least, their mistakes on the night are very much correctable. The Hawks will get three full days of rest before taking the court once more, this time in NBA Cup action against the Chicago Bulls.